Watching Dune: Prophecy was one of the trippiest experiences I’ve had in a while. As a fan of The Matrix and The Animatrix, I couldn’t help but notice parallels that made me grin.
One or two concepts with machines felt like a post-Matrix universe where humanity had somehow won. Looking beyond that, the film does a lot to expand the foundation of the universe Denis Villeneuve introduced in his Dune films, but this time we’re going way back 10,000 years before the events of the movies.
